Thursday, January 16, 2025

Orange Moon Thursday, January 16, 2025 "Thou Knowest"

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"Thou Knowest"



     How does one - One - who possesses complete foreknowledge think?


     "His understanding is infinite" (Psalm 147:5).

     "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world" (Acts 15:18).


     We do not know.  By definition, those who possess only finite knowledge and no perfect awareness of things to come have no frame of reference regarding the wonder of God's mind and how it works.  Our first response to how our Lord thinks, therefore, involves descending to the knees of our own minds in awe of Him, and the completely humbled acknowledgement regarding our own thinking capacities.


    "The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about.  And behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.  And He said unto me, son of man, can these bones live?  And I answered, O Lord God, Thou knowest" (Ezekiel 37:3).


    The prophet discovered after the fact that which God knew before the fact.  This characterizes the relationship between the Creator and all His creatures.  God alone knows in His own mind that which will come to pass.  If He chooses to reveal future events, we can know ahead of time their happening.  Even then, however, our awareness is limited regarding the countless aspects involved in anything God does.  Consider a grain of sand made by Him, and sustained by Him.  Current estimates indicate quadrillions of atoms compose so tiny an object.  All require the Lord's ongoing voice to exist in the moment, and in the moments to come - "upholding all things by the word of His power" (Hebrews 1:3).  Any notion, therefore, that we know more than the most limited measure of God's doings to come, including those He has chosen to foretell, reveals how poorly and insanely proudly we are using our minds to think of Him.  We can know some, and even a bit more.  Never, however, can we know all because a Being of perfect foreknowledge thinks in ways immeasurably beyond our understanding.  Indeed, the Psalmist declared the matter, in what can only be viewed as a classic Biblical understatement: "O Lord…Thy thoughts are very deep" (Psalm 92:5).


   This consideration, after driving us to our knees in reverent wonder, lifts us up unto an increased faith and confidence.  Born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ have committed the care of our spirits, souls, and bodies in both time and eternity to One who knows everything that will come our way.  In light of our current consideration, we spend very little time seeking to understand how such a blessed thing can be.  Instead, we spend much time pondering the Biblical assurance of such a foundation and security known for ourselves, and for all who will humble their hearts and minds to trust the perfectly foreknowing heart and mind of God.  "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee" (Isaiah 26:3).


    The wondrous One we trust "knoweth all things" (I John 3:20).  Moreover, He has from everlasting known all that arrive upon our doorstep in this day and forevermore.  A frame of reference for such knowledge - such foreknowledge - available to our understanding?  Not hardly.  Not ever.  Wonderfully, in our inability to comprehend, we find the greatest peace and security available to our minds as we remember the assurance found not because we know, but rather because "Thou knowest."


"There is no searching of His understanding."

(Isaiah 40:28)


Weekly Memory Verse

   "I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."

(Psalm 32:5)










































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